The Three Kingdoms of Nature
Abstract
IN reply to your correspondent's question as to which of the three kingdoms `` water '' belongs, I beg to state that the strict scientific definition of a mineral, adopted in most mineralogies, is as follows : a mineral is any inorganic, homogeneous, natural substance.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- March 1876
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1876Natur..13R.386E